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jazz1
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To be totally honest with ya jazz there more for show than anything else. Had one fitted to my supra before, think it was a greddy one, the brother opened it up one day when i removed it and the inside was like new, not a single drip of oil in there, have the pics here if ya want to see it :)

 

As engine dress up they do the trick ;)

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The reason that no oil is caught in *most* of the catch tanks out there is because the inlet and outlet pipes go into the catch can the same distance (if at all) so the gasses carrying the oil vapour just go straight in then out!

 

The inet pipe needs to go to almost the bottom of the can so that the gasses hit the bottom then travel up to the outlet. This means that the suspended oil drops out of suspension when it hits the bottom of the can. Another useful trick is to fill the can with stainless steel 'scouring pads'. Not the wire wool ones (with soap in them!!), but the ones that look like swarf from a lathe. The surface area of the stainless swarf carches the oil/water as it passes through.

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The reason that no oil is caught in *most* of the catch tanks out there is because the inlet and outlet pipes go into the catch can the same distance (if at all) so the gasses carrying the oil vapour just go straight in then out!

 

The inet pipe needs to go to almost the bottom of the can so that the gasses hit the bottom then travel up to the outlet. This means that the suspended oil drops out of suspension when it hits the bottom of the can. Another useful trick is to fill the can with stainless steel 'scouring pads'. Not the wire wool ones (with soap in them!!), but the ones that look like swarf from a lathe. The surface area of the stainless swarf carches the oil/water as it passes through.

 

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